grellow

What colour is the pepper on this skewer? I say yellow. My colleagues said green. I value open-mindedness, and in similar situations will defer to the group, but this felt like being persuaded to deny my own subjective experience: a tall order for words alone. I couldn't look at the pepper and say "green green green" and see it as any other colour. I'm nominalist about such things, "yellow" isn't "real" - what's actually happening is we're expressing how we classify things: see ismy.blue. One could argue we just obviously need a third colour (mustard, cyan) in this situation, but that doesn't remove the continuum paradox - imagine the same website but for cyan and blue. The strong Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is probably not correct, but could a weaker version be at play? I asked my colleagues if they knew what banana peppers were and they said no. Maybe that's why we disagree! My ontology of peppers accommodates yellow peppers already and theirs doesn't.🫑 Could we have agreed upon a double…